obama is the un-leader. he is vacating and abdicating our role as a superpower in the world, and we need to be pointing that out long, hard an continuously. >> ambassador silverberg, bumps in the road. israel is, quote, one of our best friends in the middle east. do we have a better friend in a middle east than the democracy israel? i mean, egypt has completely changed now, burning our flag down. what is obama -- does he in fact inside that head of his understand what's at stake and what his own policy is, or had he just winging it on a day-to-day basis, doing a lot of damage in the process? >> you know, it's not just about his comments last night. we've had four years of the u.s. disstancing itself from our closest ally in the region, israel, and it's dangerous. it not only makes the israelis feel less secure, but it sends this dangerous signal to the retheme in tehran. you know, as you pointed out, ahmadinejad is in new york calling for israel's elimination. we are at a very dangerous point in the iranian